Former Philippine President's Wife, Son Linked to Mutiny

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Former Philippine President's Wife, Son Linked to Mutiny

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A ranking military officer said Tuesday that former Philippine President Joseph Estrada's wife and one of his sons were linked to the failed mutiny in a central business center in a Manila suburb on July 27.

Testifying before a fact-finding commission created by the presidential palace, Intelligence Service of the Armed Forces chief Major General Pedro Cabuay claimed that the suspects'vehicles were used by the mutineers in an attempt to rob a armory in the northern province of Cavite.

An envelope with a letterhead bearing the names of the deposedpresident's wife, now Senator Luisa Ejercito, and her son, Jude Estrada, was found in the said vehicles. Also found were car passes issued by the Senate and the residential compound where the Estrada family now lives, Cabuay added.

Before this, Estrada's mistress Laarni Enriquez and formermember of his cabinet Ramon Cardenas were charged with rebellion for allegedly allowing the rebels to use their properties as staging grounds for the mutiny.

A separate report here quoted military official as saying thatthe mutineers had once planned to spring the former president outof his detention cell in a police hospital, and put him in the presidential palace for three days as the nominal head of the government, then a 15-member junta would replace Estrada to rule the country.

Some 300 soldiers occupied a building in Makati financialdistrict on July 27, demanding the resignation of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and her cabinet members, but the uprising endedpeacefully.

The government said the failed plot had called for the rebelsto assassinate Arroyo and set-up a 15-man junta to be led by opposition senator Gregorio Honasan, who has gone into hiding.Charges of rebellion were also filed against the lawmaker.

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